Reply #58: Mount Rainier Maryland. It's the "new" Takoma Park.

[Leopolds Ghost]

Not that there's anything wrong with the old Takoma Park
but it's suffering from Berkely syndrome at the moment.

Hopefully the housing crash will fix that.

The good news is neither town has any chain stores in city limits.

Mount Rainier is the only place I've been in the East Coast where you
used to see Rasta-guys smoking ganja at the corner cafe. Out doors.
Across from the police station. Also, they have a city-owned bike
library, second hand furniture stores, pyramid worship centers.
And it's incredibly cheap to live there.

Reminds me a little of New Orleans, actually. They have levees in
Mount Rainier, and industry. It's a touch south of the Mason Dixon
line. It's more integrated than Takoma Park.

The local microbrew is Anarchy Ale.



http://staff.cua.edu/robbins/rainier.htm

Mount Rainier Community:

* Anacostia Hours...(Community Currency)

* Mount Rainier Bike Co-op (city owned)

Artists & Musicians:

* Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries & Sandy O)

* Alan Binstock, Mount Rainier sculptor

* Artspace Projects, Inc

* Latin American Folk Institute

* Joe’s Movement Emporium

If you want Peace, work for Justice:

* New Ways Ministry

* Little Friends for Peace

* Maryland Citizens Against State Executions

* The Quixote Center

* Cities for Peace (Mount Rainier joins the ranks)

Food & Drink:

* Artmosphere Cafe

* Glut Food Coop... "Since 1969... Still cheap, still funky!"

Miscellaneous:

* National Bicycle Greenway runs from Santa Cruz to Mount Rainier MD

* Community Forklift (recycled building materials storehouse)

Takoma Park turned this gas station into a park,